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'-- In town --s
today
8;S0 a.m. Boone County Court
meeting, County-Cit- y Building
7:30 p.m. Board of Health
meeting, Municipal Building.
:15 p.m. University Chorus,
Campus Lutheran Church
See page 13A for movie listings.
3TAT2 HrSTORKML SOCIETY 19354 HITT & LOWRY ST.
COLUMBIA, M0. 65201
ST. 3-1- 4-74
69th Year - No. 63 Gotta Morning! It9 Thursday Dot . 2. 1 976 3 Sri turns - lit Pages - 1 5 ( ents
Housing code violations declining
New city procedures, inspectors
keeping closer tabs on landlords
By Steve Rosen
and Jeff Rabin
Missourian staff writers
Walls have been rebuilt, ceilings
replastered, electricity rewired and
most major health and safety hazards
eliminated in properties where
apparent housing code violations were
uncovered in 1974 and 1975 by the
Columbia Missourian.
A remspecbon by mis newspaper of
36 houses last month showed that most
landlords have attempted to upgrade
their property and meet Columbia's
bousing code.
This is the fifth housing condition
study by the Missourian m three years
Friday's articles will take an in-dep- th
look at the city's housing inspection
program and examine an ordinance in
University City, Mo , which is designed
to prevent rental areas from becoming
slums
City officials say their inspections
have shown an increased effort by the
landlords to cooperate. Hie aty
inspects Columbia's 41 rooming houses
twice a year. Apartment houses with
less than 10 units also are being
regularly inspected by the aty under a
new procedure.
As defined by the city housing code, a
rooming house contains three or more
rooms leased separately, none of which
include cooking facilities A rooming
house may include a common kitchen to
be shared by three or more tenants
In 1974, fiie Missourian found many
rental properties apparently in
violation of the housing code At that
tune, the city's inspection program was
ineffective because there was a lack of
housing inspectors
Housing
Revisited
1976
With the aid of federal money the aty
has increased the number of housing
inspectors from one to three and has
rewritten its housing code.
The aty imposes no formal timetable
for finishing repairs as long as city
officials believe owners are attempting
to upgrade the houses
One of the most outspoken defenders
of the landlords during past
investigations of rental DroDerties by
the Missourian has been Mark
Stevenson He owns a three-stor- y
rooming house at 1419 Wilson Ave
which had numerous apparent
violations of the housing code when
checked by the Missourian and the city
in 1974 and 1975
Stevenson says he fixed most of the 34
apparent violations cited by the city in
September 1975 a few days after his
property was inspected "I've
gradually been improving the house
and I plan to keep making
improvements, but it will take another
two or three years," he said
A recent inspection by the Missourian
showed only a few apparent violations
of the aty housing code Wallpaper is
falling off the wall on a second-floo- r
stairway Mattresses and paint in a
comer of the basement apparently are
a fire hazard Stevenson said he plans
to continue repairing his property
Two years ago, a basement bathroom
at 1419 Wilson Ave had cracked walls
with weeds growing from the cracks A
aty inspector said the condition of the
walls was a code violation In
September 1975, the Missourian found
the bathroom padlocked But last
month the bathroom had been reopened
with the ceding and walls plastered
Stevenson said he fixed the bathroom
last year at a cost of about $500
"The plants in the wall didn't hurt
(See IMPROVEMENTS, page 14A)
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In 1975 this bathroom at 1419 Wilson Ave. had a
cracked wall an apparent housing code
violation and weeds were growing from the
cracks The plasterboard ceiling was cracked
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bN"
- f
and missing in places. Landlord Mark Stevenson
has repaired the ceiling and walls (Missourian
photos)
IrasigM
Grand Jury
plans heeded
by county
County still without
road and bridge
administrator
By Scott Sonde,
MtosoErian staff writer
In the wake of harsh criticism by the
1176 Boone County Grand Jury in June,
the county Road and Bridge
Department has adopted nine of the
grand jury's 11 recommendations
Some of those recommendations,
however, have been adopted only in
part
The department, largest m county
government with 29 employes, also has
corrected a number of deficiencies that
the grand jury reported.
The grand jury criticized the
department: "In many ways, this
whole department is still being
operated as if Boone County soil were a
third-clas- s county "
Despite adoption of some
recommendations, the department still
is without a professional road and
bridge administrator, which the report
called "a most important
recommendation."
The County Court voted to study
hiring an administrator Oct 5 and has
included the administrator's salary
ranging from $16,000 to $20,000 in the
department's preliminary 1977 budget,
but tt has not approved a job
description for the post
Thecourt has not developed complete
personnel rules for the department as
the grand jury suggested. Nor has the
court set up a long-rang-e plan for
repairing county roads. The grand jury
criticized the department for a lack of
planning.
But the newiy elected County Court
judges, who wiU take office Jan l.have
said they favor Wring an administrator
and implementing personnel rules and
long-rang-e planning
The department now is following the
report's recommendation on
purchasing, bidding and keeping an
inventory of supplies.
The grand jury said, 'Totally
inadequate procedures were found to
edstinaB areas of purchasing "
But now, as state law requires, if
scpphes or repair work cost more than
$100, cost estimates are taken, tads are
received and the court awards a
contract, according to Southern
District Judge Carolyn Lathrop,
Northern District Judge Rodney Smith
and Elmo Winterhalter, the
department's superintendent
In the past, at least some ofthe repair
work and supplies were purchase
wttbouttakingbids.
The new method, however, often
(8eeCOUNTY,pglzA)
Glascock may pay for shortages
By Martha Polkey
and Scott Sonde
Missourian staff writers
County Clerk Murry Glascock says he
may be "burning a little midnight oil"
for the next two weeks reviewing his
office records in an effort to avoid
having to repay the county for fee
shortages of $3,423 82 revealed by an
audit '
The report by County Auditor Don
Caldwell was released Wednesday after
Glascock met for 20 minutes with
Caldwell and Prosecuting Attorney Mdt
Harper.
At the meeting, Glascock was given
until Dec 15 to review his records ind
the audit report and explain the
discrepancies He pledged he
personally would reimburse the county
for any shortages not accounted for
after his review
Glascock originally had been
scheduled to complete his revew of the
financial records by Wednesday
The audit report showed that $599 10
in planning and zoning permit fees
turned over to Glascock's office from
January 1975 to August 1976 and
$2,324 72 in liquor license fees collected
in 1975 could not be accounted for
Collections made by the clerk's office
are supposed to be turned over to the
county treasurer
Caldwell's audit was made by
leviewmg the records and copies of
licenses issued by the county clerk's
office receipts issued by the county
treasurer for money turned over by the
clerk's office, planning and zoning
permits, state liquor license records
and a survey of businesses regarding
liquor licenses
Caldwell s audit report included six
recommendations for the clerk's office
that would reduce the amount of funds
handled in the office by about $29,000
annually
The specifics of the shortages were
not discussed at the meeting, but the
report was discussed in general terms,
Caldvt ell said
Mr Glascock, Mr Caldwell and I
have met and discussed the findings of
the auditor s audit We have decided to
give Mr Glascock until Dec 15 to
analyze the audit and give us an
answer," Harper said
Glascock has said that the general
election Nov 2, his two-da- y illness last
week and the fact that Caldwell's office
had some of the liquor license records
had kept nun from replying to the audit
The clerk said Wednesday he thinks
the new deadline will give him enough
time to fully analyze the audit To do
that, he said, 'I may hav e to be burning
a little midnight oil '
Harper said that he could not say
until Dec 15 if any negligence was
involved in the fund shortages
Planning and zoning fees, which had
passed through the clerk s office since
1974, have been deposited directly from
the planning and zoning office to the
county treasurer since August
Caldwell's recommendations included
(See CALDWELL, page 14A )
,
Another swine flu clinic
to he offered on Dec. 1 1
Those persons unable to attend the
city-count- y swine flu clinics in
November will have another chance
Another free swine flu vaccination
clinic will be held Dec 11, City
Health Director Mike Sanford said
Wednesday night
Persons 18 to 24 will need a second
shot of the vaccine to insure they
have complete protection from the
virus. Immunity response is not
fully developed until a person is 25
years old, Sanford said
Sanford said that about 25,000
persons in Boone County have been
immunized "The case in Concordia
(the first apparent swine flu case)
will influence some to participate
who did not before," he said
Sanford said he will order more
vaccine for the clinic
The locations of the clinic will be
determined soon, he said J
Trouble stalks parolee
By Wayne Davis
Missourian staff writer
His parole officer thought Carl
Nowun was "just some left footed guy
who was always stumbling into things "
Wednesday night, Nowhn, of 2005
Riney Lane, was in critical condition
from gunshot wounds after having
stumbled into the path of a Columbia
policeman during what police said was
the attempted burglary of a service
stathon
At 22, Nowhn has spent a year and a
half in a rehabilitation center and 20
months in prison Since his parole a
year ago, he has been arrested three
times by local authorities
"I thought I could handle him," said
Steven Ay ers, his former parole officer
But I guess I was wrong "
Nowhn was listed in critical but
stable condition at the University
Medical Center Wednesday night He
was shot three times by Officer Jack
Phillips during an attempted burglary
of the Interstate Conoco station on U S
63S
Phillips was ' clearly justified" in his
actions, according to Police Chief
David Walsh and Prosecuting Attorney
Milt Harper
In 1972, Nowhn pleaded guilty to the
burglary of Barnhart s Excavation Co ,
Route 5 He was charged with stealing a
$100 cham saw
Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley
sentenced nun to six years in prison but
suspended the sentence on the condition
that Nowhn report to Reality House, a
local rehabilitation center for persons
on probation
Nowhn spent the next 17 months there
but often violated his probation,
according to Circuit Court records In
February 1974, Conlej ordered him to
(See SUSPECT, page 12 A)
Sessions to study school problems
By Chris Patterson
andJon Peck
Mssoartanstaff writers
Problems of Missouri's public schools
and some proposed solutions will
be discussed when the Governor's
Conference on Education begins public
meetings today in Columbia
The conference, chaired by LL Gov
William G. Phelps, will begin with
separate committee meetings at 7
tonight at numerous University
locations and swing into general
sessions Friday and Saturday m Jesse
Auditorium.
The 700 delegates will make
recommendations to the legislature and
state education officials in the areas of
educational finance, governance, child
and parent education, vocational
education and accountability.
Established by Gov. Christopher S
Bond in August 1975, the conference is
charged with mapping directions for
public education in the next quarter
century.
The delegates are intended to be a
croas-eectto-n of Missouri. Conference
rules require there be two
nonprofessionals for every professional
educator among the delegates. School
board members who are delegates, like
Jan Flach of Columbia, are considered
nonprofessionals.
Tonight the committees wffl consider
amendments to their reports Friday
and Saturday sessions will deal with
final revisions and recommendations to
the legislature
Among the changes proposed by the
committees are
Educational Finance
Major recommendations will handle
revision of the School Foundation
Program, through which public schools
receive much of their state aid.
This funding formula, created in 1968
by the previous Governor's Conference
on Education, now is inequitable, the
committee says. Property assessment,
upon which local school taxes are
based, is poorly administered by the
state tax commission. Second, some
wealthy school districts receive state
aid funds they otherwise would not
because of a so-call-ed "grandfather
clause," which guarantees that
districts receive at least the amount of
state aid per pupd they received in 1968-6- 9,
when the formula took effect
To solve these problems, the
committee recommends a uniform
reassessment of property taxes every
four years, state certification of all
assessors and a phasing out of the
"grandfather clause."
In addition, the committee suggests
that the state establish a ijiwftn"m tax
base level for all school districts Any
district with a tax base below that level
would receive compensating state
funds
Governance
Among the more controversial
recommendations is the governance
committee suggestion that a master
plan be developed to establish
minimum size and grade-lev- el stan-dards
for schools This proposal would
eliminate districts with only elemen-tary
schools and it also could lead to
consolidation of other school districts
The committee also proposes
eliminating teacher tenure by
replacing it with a procedural due
process for all teachers This
recommendation has been viewed with
some skepticism by teachers who fear
the procedural due process would offer
less job security
Other governance recommendations
include the establishment by school
boards of citizens advisory councils
having added power, creation of a blue-ribb- on
state advisory council to make
recommendations to state educational
organizations and institutions and
expanding most school boards to seven
members from six.
Early Childhood and Parent Education
This committee calls for increased
emphasis on statewide planing and
funding of educational services related
to pre-scho- ol children and their
parents Many educators believe the
years before a child enters school
particularly ages three through sue
are especially important in the child's
development and the state thus should
take part in education at this time.
The committee also suggests that
programs aimed at preparing students
to become parents should be offered by
the schools
Vocational Education
This committee suggests that local
school boards expand vocational
education programs, using employers
in the planning process
The committee also recommends
requiring state vocational schools to
meet certain minimal operational
standards
But the committee's report points out
that the vocational education program
in Missouri already is strong, it
recommends keeping it so
Accountability
To make schools more accountable to
the public, this committee recommends
that schools publish in detail its goals
and objectives, besides providing the
public with a report of the cost of
achieving the objectives
Education conference agenda
Schedule for the Governor's
Conference on Education
Thursday, standing committee
sessions, all at 7 p m
Accountability, Lab School
Auditorium, Early Childhood and
Parent Education, Geology
Auditorium, Educational Finance,
Jesse Auditorium, Governance,
Middlebush Auditorium, Vocational
Education, Arts and Science
Auditorium
Friday, general sessions, all at
Jesse Auditorium
9 am., Introduction and address,
LtGov William C Phelps and Gov
Christopher S Bond, 9 30 a m ,
Vocational Education, 1 p.m , Early
Childhood and Parent Education, 3
pm, Governance, 7 30 pm,
Accountability
Saturday, general session, Jesse
Auditorium
8 30 a.m , Educational Finance,
12. 15 p m , adjournment

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'-- In town --s
today
8;S0 a.m. Boone County Court
meeting, County-Cit- y Building
7:30 p.m. Board of Health
meeting, Municipal Building.
:15 p.m. University Chorus,
Campus Lutheran Church
See page 13A for movie listings.
3TAT2 HrSTORKML SOCIETY 19354 HITT & LOWRY ST.
COLUMBIA, M0. 65201
ST. 3-1- 4-74
69th Year - No. 63 Gotta Morning! It9 Thursday Dot . 2. 1 976 3 Sri turns - lit Pages - 1 5 ( ents
Housing code violations declining
New city procedures, inspectors
keeping closer tabs on landlords
By Steve Rosen
and Jeff Rabin
Missourian staff writers
Walls have been rebuilt, ceilings
replastered, electricity rewired and
most major health and safety hazards
eliminated in properties where
apparent housing code violations were
uncovered in 1974 and 1975 by the
Columbia Missourian.
A remspecbon by mis newspaper of
36 houses last month showed that most
landlords have attempted to upgrade
their property and meet Columbia's
bousing code.
This is the fifth housing condition
study by the Missourian m three years
Friday's articles will take an in-dep- th
look at the city's housing inspection
program and examine an ordinance in
University City, Mo , which is designed
to prevent rental areas from becoming
slums
City officials say their inspections
have shown an increased effort by the
landlords to cooperate. Hie aty
inspects Columbia's 41 rooming houses
twice a year. Apartment houses with
less than 10 units also are being
regularly inspected by the aty under a
new procedure.
As defined by the city housing code, a
rooming house contains three or more
rooms leased separately, none of which
include cooking facilities A rooming
house may include a common kitchen to
be shared by three or more tenants
In 1974, fiie Missourian found many
rental properties apparently in
violation of the housing code At that
tune, the city's inspection program was
ineffective because there was a lack of
housing inspectors
Housing
Revisited
1976
With the aid of federal money the aty
has increased the number of housing
inspectors from one to three and has
rewritten its housing code.
The aty imposes no formal timetable
for finishing repairs as long as city
officials believe owners are attempting
to upgrade the houses
One of the most outspoken defenders
of the landlords during past
investigations of rental DroDerties by
the Missourian has been Mark
Stevenson He owns a three-stor- y
rooming house at 1419 Wilson Ave
which had numerous apparent
violations of the housing code when
checked by the Missourian and the city
in 1974 and 1975
Stevenson says he fixed most of the 34
apparent violations cited by the city in
September 1975 a few days after his
property was inspected "I've
gradually been improving the house
and I plan to keep making
improvements, but it will take another
two or three years," he said
A recent inspection by the Missourian
showed only a few apparent violations
of the aty housing code Wallpaper is
falling off the wall on a second-floo- r
stairway Mattresses and paint in a
comer of the basement apparently are
a fire hazard Stevenson said he plans
to continue repairing his property
Two years ago, a basement bathroom
at 1419 Wilson Ave had cracked walls
with weeds growing from the cracks A
aty inspector said the condition of the
walls was a code violation In
September 1975, the Missourian found
the bathroom padlocked But last
month the bathroom had been reopened
with the ceding and walls plastered
Stevenson said he fixed the bathroom
last year at a cost of about $500
"The plants in the wall didn't hurt
(See IMPROVEMENTS, page 14A)
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Y HBMB&nnPiHBWiflnVBHKSxHKHHifiHBHDB. 8
fllfflla3BaHsttg3iMWsMM B
In 1975 this bathroom at 1419 Wilson Ave. had a
cracked wall an apparent housing code
violation and weeds were growing from the
cracks The plasterboard ceiling was cracked
r '
x
bN"
- f
and missing in places. Landlord Mark Stevenson
has repaired the ceiling and walls (Missourian
photos)
IrasigM
Grand Jury
plans heeded
by county
County still without
road and bridge
administrator
By Scott Sonde,
MtosoErian staff writer
In the wake of harsh criticism by the
1176 Boone County Grand Jury in June,
the county Road and Bridge
Department has adopted nine of the
grand jury's 11 recommendations
Some of those recommendations,
however, have been adopted only in
part
The department, largest m county
government with 29 employes, also has
corrected a number of deficiencies that
the grand jury reported.
The grand jury criticized the
department: "In many ways, this
whole department is still being
operated as if Boone County soil were a
third-clas- s county "
Despite adoption of some
recommendations, the department still
is without a professional road and
bridge administrator, which the report
called "a most important
recommendation."
The County Court voted to study
hiring an administrator Oct 5 and has
included the administrator's salary
ranging from $16,000 to $20,000 in the
department's preliminary 1977 budget,
but tt has not approved a job
description for the post
Thecourt has not developed complete
personnel rules for the department as
the grand jury suggested. Nor has the
court set up a long-rang-e plan for
repairing county roads. The grand jury
criticized the department for a lack of
planning.
But the newiy elected County Court
judges, who wiU take office Jan l.have
said they favor Wring an administrator
and implementing personnel rules and
long-rang-e planning
The department now is following the
report's recommendation on
purchasing, bidding and keeping an
inventory of supplies.
The grand jury said, 'Totally
inadequate procedures were found to
edstinaB areas of purchasing "
But now, as state law requires, if
scpphes or repair work cost more than
$100, cost estimates are taken, tads are
received and the court awards a
contract, according to Southern
District Judge Carolyn Lathrop,
Northern District Judge Rodney Smith
and Elmo Winterhalter, the
department's superintendent
In the past, at least some ofthe repair
work and supplies were purchase
wttbouttakingbids.
The new method, however, often
(8eeCOUNTY,pglzA)
Glascock may pay for shortages
By Martha Polkey
and Scott Sonde
Missourian staff writers
County Clerk Murry Glascock says he
may be "burning a little midnight oil"
for the next two weeks reviewing his
office records in an effort to avoid
having to repay the county for fee
shortages of $3,423 82 revealed by an
audit '
The report by County Auditor Don
Caldwell was released Wednesday after
Glascock met for 20 minutes with
Caldwell and Prosecuting Attorney Mdt
Harper.
At the meeting, Glascock was given
until Dec 15 to review his records ind
the audit report and explain the
discrepancies He pledged he
personally would reimburse the county
for any shortages not accounted for
after his review
Glascock originally had been
scheduled to complete his revew of the
financial records by Wednesday
The audit report showed that $599 10
in planning and zoning permit fees
turned over to Glascock's office from
January 1975 to August 1976 and
$2,324 72 in liquor license fees collected
in 1975 could not be accounted for
Collections made by the clerk's office
are supposed to be turned over to the
county treasurer
Caldwell's audit was made by
leviewmg the records and copies of
licenses issued by the county clerk's
office receipts issued by the county
treasurer for money turned over by the
clerk's office, planning and zoning
permits, state liquor license records
and a survey of businesses regarding
liquor licenses
Caldwell s audit report included six
recommendations for the clerk's office
that would reduce the amount of funds
handled in the office by about $29,000
annually
The specifics of the shortages were
not discussed at the meeting, but the
report was discussed in general terms,
Caldvt ell said
Mr Glascock, Mr Caldwell and I
have met and discussed the findings of
the auditor s audit We have decided to
give Mr Glascock until Dec 15 to
analyze the audit and give us an
answer," Harper said
Glascock has said that the general
election Nov 2, his two-da- y illness last
week and the fact that Caldwell's office
had some of the liquor license records
had kept nun from replying to the audit
The clerk said Wednesday he thinks
the new deadline will give him enough
time to fully analyze the audit To do
that, he said, 'I may hav e to be burning
a little midnight oil '
Harper said that he could not say
until Dec 15 if any negligence was
involved in the fund shortages
Planning and zoning fees, which had
passed through the clerk s office since
1974, have been deposited directly from
the planning and zoning office to the
county treasurer since August
Caldwell's recommendations included
(See CALDWELL, page 14A )
,
Another swine flu clinic
to he offered on Dec. 1 1
Those persons unable to attend the
city-count- y swine flu clinics in
November will have another chance
Another free swine flu vaccination
clinic will be held Dec 11, City
Health Director Mike Sanford said
Wednesday night
Persons 18 to 24 will need a second
shot of the vaccine to insure they
have complete protection from the
virus. Immunity response is not
fully developed until a person is 25
years old, Sanford said
Sanford said that about 25,000
persons in Boone County have been
immunized "The case in Concordia
(the first apparent swine flu case)
will influence some to participate
who did not before," he said
Sanford said he will order more
vaccine for the clinic
The locations of the clinic will be
determined soon, he said J
Trouble stalks parolee
By Wayne Davis
Missourian staff writer
His parole officer thought Carl
Nowun was "just some left footed guy
who was always stumbling into things "
Wednesday night, Nowhn, of 2005
Riney Lane, was in critical condition
from gunshot wounds after having
stumbled into the path of a Columbia
policeman during what police said was
the attempted burglary of a service
stathon
At 22, Nowhn has spent a year and a
half in a rehabilitation center and 20
months in prison Since his parole a
year ago, he has been arrested three
times by local authorities
"I thought I could handle him," said
Steven Ay ers, his former parole officer
But I guess I was wrong "
Nowhn was listed in critical but
stable condition at the University
Medical Center Wednesday night He
was shot three times by Officer Jack
Phillips during an attempted burglary
of the Interstate Conoco station on U S
63S
Phillips was ' clearly justified" in his
actions, according to Police Chief
David Walsh and Prosecuting Attorney
Milt Harper
In 1972, Nowhn pleaded guilty to the
burglary of Barnhart s Excavation Co ,
Route 5 He was charged with stealing a
$100 cham saw
Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley
sentenced nun to six years in prison but
suspended the sentence on the condition
that Nowhn report to Reality House, a
local rehabilitation center for persons
on probation
Nowhn spent the next 17 months there
but often violated his probation,
according to Circuit Court records In
February 1974, Conlej ordered him to
(See SUSPECT, page 12 A)
Sessions to study school problems
By Chris Patterson
andJon Peck
Mssoartanstaff writers
Problems of Missouri's public schools
and some proposed solutions will
be discussed when the Governor's
Conference on Education begins public
meetings today in Columbia
The conference, chaired by LL Gov
William G. Phelps, will begin with
separate committee meetings at 7
tonight at numerous University
locations and swing into general
sessions Friday and Saturday m Jesse
Auditorium.
The 700 delegates will make
recommendations to the legislature and
state education officials in the areas of
educational finance, governance, child
and parent education, vocational
education and accountability.
Established by Gov. Christopher S
Bond in August 1975, the conference is
charged with mapping directions for
public education in the next quarter
century.
The delegates are intended to be a
croas-eectto-n of Missouri. Conference
rules require there be two
nonprofessionals for every professional
educator among the delegates. School
board members who are delegates, like
Jan Flach of Columbia, are considered
nonprofessionals.
Tonight the committees wffl consider
amendments to their reports Friday
and Saturday sessions will deal with
final revisions and recommendations to
the legislature
Among the changes proposed by the
committees are
Educational Finance
Major recommendations will handle
revision of the School Foundation
Program, through which public schools
receive much of their state aid.
This funding formula, created in 1968
by the previous Governor's Conference
on Education, now is inequitable, the
committee says. Property assessment,
upon which local school taxes are
based, is poorly administered by the
state tax commission. Second, some
wealthy school districts receive state
aid funds they otherwise would not
because of a so-call-ed "grandfather
clause," which guarantees that
districts receive at least the amount of
state aid per pupd they received in 1968-6- 9,
when the formula took effect
To solve these problems, the
committee recommends a uniform
reassessment of property taxes every
four years, state certification of all
assessors and a phasing out of the
"grandfather clause."
In addition, the committee suggests
that the state establish a ijiwftn"m tax
base level for all school districts Any
district with a tax base below that level
would receive compensating state
funds
Governance
Among the more controversial
recommendations is the governance
committee suggestion that a master
plan be developed to establish
minimum size and grade-lev- el stan-dards
for schools This proposal would
eliminate districts with only elemen-tary
schools and it also could lead to
consolidation of other school districts
The committee also proposes
eliminating teacher tenure by
replacing it with a procedural due
process for all teachers This
recommendation has been viewed with
some skepticism by teachers who fear
the procedural due process would offer
less job security
Other governance recommendations
include the establishment by school
boards of citizens advisory councils
having added power, creation of a blue-ribb- on
state advisory council to make
recommendations to state educational
organizations and institutions and
expanding most school boards to seven
members from six.
Early Childhood and Parent Education
This committee calls for increased
emphasis on statewide planing and
funding of educational services related
to pre-scho- ol children and their
parents Many educators believe the
years before a child enters school
particularly ages three through sue
are especially important in the child's
development and the state thus should
take part in education at this time.
The committee also suggests that
programs aimed at preparing students
to become parents should be offered by
the schools
Vocational Education
This committee suggests that local
school boards expand vocational
education programs, using employers
in the planning process
The committee also recommends
requiring state vocational schools to
meet certain minimal operational
standards
But the committee's report points out
that the vocational education program
in Missouri already is strong, it
recommends keeping it so
Accountability
To make schools more accountable to
the public, this committee recommends
that schools publish in detail its goals
and objectives, besides providing the
public with a report of the cost of
achieving the objectives
Education conference agenda
Schedule for the Governor's
Conference on Education
Thursday, standing committee
sessions, all at 7 p m
Accountability, Lab School
Auditorium, Early Childhood and
Parent Education, Geology
Auditorium, Educational Finance,
Jesse Auditorium, Governance,
Middlebush Auditorium, Vocational
Education, Arts and Science
Auditorium
Friday, general sessions, all at
Jesse Auditorium
9 am., Introduction and address,
LtGov William C Phelps and Gov
Christopher S Bond, 9 30 a m ,
Vocational Education, 1 p.m , Early
Childhood and Parent Education, 3
pm, Governance, 7 30 pm,
Accountability
Saturday, general session, Jesse
Auditorium
8 30 a.m , Educational Finance,
12. 15 p m , adjournment